Printed Books, Maps & Autographs

[Africa]. Group of approximately 36 manuscript maps, town plans and geological sections, c.1860, all in pen and ink on laid paper, many folding, 1...

[America]. Two pamphlet volumes, 1806-13, containing: 1. Sullivan (James & Pickering, Timothy). Interesting Correspondence between His Excellency ...

[Arabian Peninsula]. 'Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce', 1827, watercolour with pen and ink on laid paper (the paper probab...

Barthe?lemy (Jean Jacques). Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the Middle of the Fourth Century before the Christian Aera..., Tra...

Berghaus (Dr. Heinrich). Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten, 8 parts in 2 volumes, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1845-8, 90 maps and tables (c...

Burton (Richard F.). Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland, 2 volumes , 1st edition, London: William P. Nimmo, 1875, half-titles, 6 tinted lithogr...

Capriolo (Aliprando). Ritratti di cento capitani illustri, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Rome: Filippo Thomassino and Giovanni Turpino, 1600 [colophon 1...

China. Personal Recollections of the T'ai-P'ing Rebellion, 1861-63. By the Ven. Archdeacon Moule, Shanghai: printed at the "Shanghai Mercury" Offi...

Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, portrait frontispiece, folding ma...

Churchill (Winston Spencer). My African Journey, 1st edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908, monochrome plates after photographs, 3 single-page maps,...

* Clarke (Sir Alured, 1744-1832). Manuscript document signed as commander of British forces in Georgia during the American War of Independence, Sa...

* Dalhousie (James Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, 1812-60). Autograph letter signed as governor-general of India to Sir William Hooker (1785-1865)...

East India Company. A Brief State of the East India Trade, as it relates to the other Branches of the British Commerce: In Order to judge, whether...

* Franklin (John, 1786-1847). Autograph Letter Signed, 'John Franklin', 55 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, [London], Monday 7 July, no year, ci...

Fritsch (Karl von & Reiss , Wilhelm & Stuebel , Alphons ). Santorin. The Kaimeni Islands from Observations, translated from the German, sole Engli...

Goddard (T., & J. Booth, publishers). The Military Costume of Europe; Exhibited in a Series of Highly-Finished Military Figures, in the Uniform of...

Gold (Charles). Oriental Drawings: Sketched between the Years 1791 and 1798, London: G. and W. Nicoll, 1806, 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates...

* Hastings (Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquess of Hastings, 1754-1826). Three autograph letters signed 'Moira' to politician and dissenter William Smith...

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie , In Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the World, and all the principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Se...

Hulbert (C., publisher). The Parlour Book of Foreign Scenery, Architecture and Antiquities: being a series of select descriptions of public buildi...

* India. Three watercolours of military scenes, by M. Rigby, 1878, watercolour on artist's board, each depicting a scene of military men and horse...

* [India]. Group of 12 autograph letters signed from governors-general or viceroys of India, 19th century, including : 1. Ellenborough (Edward Law...

[Italy]. [Album of architectural studies and designs], c.1812-27, 18 wove-paper leaves each with architectural sketch recto in pen and ink, pencil...

[Italy]. Album of watercolours, Bagni di Lucca and elsewhere, 1829, 27 leaves of wove paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1817', of which 22 containing w...

James (Abraham). The Military Costume of India in an Exemplification of the Manual & Platoon Exercises for the use of the Native Troops and the Br...

Langsdorff (Georg Heinrich von). Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bid 1807, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Friedrich...

Levant Company. Five broadsides, 1718-19, comprising: 1. The case of several members of the Levant Company, complaining of the restraint of their ...

Mahbubi (Sadr al-Shari'ah al-Asghar al-, d.1346/7 CE). Tanqih al-usul, probably Iran or Central Asia, c.17/18th century, Arabic manuscript in blac...

Malleson (G. B.) , History of the French in India from the founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the capture of that place in 1761, London: Longmans, ...

Merian (Maria Sibylla ) . The Surinam Album, 2006, Folio Society, 91 colour facsimile watercolour plates, publishers original green quarter morocc...

* Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of, 1751-1814). Manuscript memorandum to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) concerning his mission t...

* Napier (Sir Charles James, 1782-1853). Autograph letter signed as governor of Sind to Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, Hyderabad, Sin...

* Werner (Freidrich Bernhard, 1690-1778). Seven sheets of multiple views from Scenographia Urbium Silesiae , Nuremberg, Homannischen Erben, [1737 ...

Polar Exploration. The Geographical Journal, vol. 3, Jan-Jun, 1894, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1894, 8 folding lithograph maps (some in c...

Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. After Lithographs by Louis Haghe from Drawings made on the Spot. With His...

Rossini (Pietro). Il Mercurio errante delle Grandezze di Roma, 2 parts in one, Rome: Fausto Amidei al Corso, 1771, 18 engraved folding plates (inc...

Shackleton (Ernest). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, colour frontispiece...

[Slave Narrative]. The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, 1st edition, New Bedford, [MA]: Press of Benjamin Lindsey, 1...

Staunton (George). [An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, atlas volume only], 1st edition, [L...

Swedish West India Company. His Majesties of Sweden Ordinance and Edict about fees for Awards, Decrees and other Writtings, Contracts and Attestat...

Thesiger (Wilfred). Desert, Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad, Motivate Publishing, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, slight spottin...

USSR in Construction. [Set of 15 issues], January-November 1930, and January-October 1931, numerous sepia and other monochrome toned photographic ...

Villani (Giovanni). Croniche ... nelle quali si tratta dell' origine di Firenze, 1st edition, Venice: Bartholomeo Zanetti, 1537, large printer's p...

Washington (John). Eskimaux and English Vocabulary, for the Use of the Arctic Expedition, Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Adm...

* Werner (Freidrich Bernhard, 1690-1778). Twenty-six engraved views of Bratislava (from Accuratum ectypum et Repraesentatio elegantissimorum Prosp...